Years ago, Les Payne was a New York newspaper columnist. He was a Pulitzer Prize winner, one of the stars of his paper, Newsday. Occasionally, he wrote a column about Malcolm X. But readers may not ...

An unpublished chapter of "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" which had been out of the public eye as it had remained in private hands for decades, was sold to the New York Public Library on Thursday. An ...

The manuscript for the unpublished “Autobiography of Malcolm X” shows the push and pull of editing between Malcolm X and Alex Haley, his collaborator, at the Guernsey auction house in New York, July ...

Stories of race, racism and colonialism in the U.S. swept the Pulitzer Prizes for the arts, from Louise Erdrich’s novel “The Night Watchman” to a Malcolm X biography co-written by the late Les Payne ...

1965 was a banner year for reading. Malcolm X had just been assassinated in New York City’s Audubon Ballroom. The shock waves of a decade of political assassinations — Medgar Evers, John F. Kennedy, ...

Tamara Payne won the National Book Award for a book largely written by her father, Les Payne. It's called The Dead Are Arising, a biography of... Malcolm X Biography Wins National Book Award STEVE ...